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    "speaker_name": "Nairobi City County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Esther Passaris",
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    "content": "(OCD). I am taking you through this because I want all the constituents whom we represent to realise that these are genuine labels. We might have them and it is nothing to be ashamed of. Dr Okonji knew I was dyslexic and had ADHD, but he did not want to give me another label. When I was in his clinic, I used to see his tiles being very disorderly. One day I told him that I would give him a Christmas present. I asked him whether I could tile his clinic. He told me to go ahead and fix his tiles. ‘Tilers’ came and fixed them. My daughter went to see him one day, and told him she could not stand her mother. 'She goes into my room, picks everything up and arranges them. Why can she not understand I am a teenager and dropping my clothes on the floor is normal?' Dr Okonji told her that her mother suffers from OCD. She wants everything orderly. My daughter came home after reading about it and apologised. She told me that she would be tidying up. She understood where I came from. I called Dr Okonji and asked him why he did not tell me I had OCD. He told me that he did not do it because I was already dealing with ADHD and dyslexia. Later on, after post-election violence and everything that I had witnessed - bloodshed and so on - I remember I came here one day and talked to Hon. Millie Odhiambo. I asked her to explain to me why I was unable to cry. I was feeling so sad and unable to have tears. She told me after post-election violence, I needed debriefing and to see a counsellor. It is when I realised that I had Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Why am I talking about all these ailments? One of the things that Kenyan women suffer from, especially a lot of single mothers, is depression. They have to deal with the baby and not having somebody to help them out after they have delivered the baby. They have postnatal depression, and do not understand why they feel they cannot handle their baby. Do you hate their babies? There are too many mental conditions out there. Some of them are treatable, while some are not. Narcissism is one of them. We deal with a lot of narcissistic people, especially those who have power and money. They can drive somebody to think that there is something wrong with them, yet it is the person who is wrong. All these conditions require us to talk to somebody to get the treatment."
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